Japanese hornbeam

Japanese hornbeam
Japanese hornbeam fruits
Systematics
Eurosiden I Order : Beech-like (Fagales) Family : Birch family (Betulaceae) Subfamily : Hazelnut family (Coryloideae) Genre : Hornbeam ( Carpinus ) Type : Japanese hornbeam
Scientific name
Carpinus japonica
flower

The Japanese hornbeam ( Carpinus japonica ) is a plant that for the genus of hornbeam ( Carpinus ) from the family of the birch family belongs (Betulaceae). It is native to Japan , where it is known as Kumashide ( Japanese 熊 四 手 ). The tree is rarely found in collections and large gardens in Central Europe .

description

The Japanese hornbeam grows as a tree and reaches heights of up to 10 meters. The smooth bark is gray-purple or dark green in color with wavy pink stripes. The bark of the branches is red and hairy. The 5 to 10 cm long, lanceolate leaves are sharply serrated with teeth pointing forward. Each leaf has 20 to 22 pairs of parallel nerves.

The fruit cluster consists of a 5 by 3 cm egg-shaped bundle of inwardly curved bracts , which are initially pale green and turn carmine-pink in August. The fruits are nuts .

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.

Systematics

The first description by the German-Dutch botanist Carl Ludwig Blume was published in 1851.

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• Alan Mitchell, translated and edited by Gerd Krüssmann: The forest and park trees of Europe: An identification book for dendrologists and nature lovers . Paul Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-490-05918-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carpinus japonica at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
2. ↑ Mus. bot. 1: 308. 1851. See entry in GRIN Taxonomy for Plants.

Web links

Commons : Japanese Hornbeam ( Carpinus japonica )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry at GRIN Taxonomy for Plants (Engl.)
• Entry at IOPI International Organization for Plant Information (Engl.)